White Nationalism

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/21/2021
  

  Bad Religion in the Ivory Tower

  by Jacques Berlinerblau

  Have scholars of religion and politics missed the rise of militant Christian nationalism because they follow an unspoken rule to "always posit religion at its best, secularism at its worst"? 

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• SOURCE: Sapiens
  10/6/2020
  

  What White Power Supporters Hear Trump Saying

  by Alexander Hinton

  Donald Trump's attacks on "political correctness" aren't calls for intellectual openness or academic freedom; they are coded messages invoking white grievance politics, including the longstanding idea that multiculturalism is part of a genocidal attack on the white race.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/8/2020
  

  Americans Aren't Worried about White Nationalism in the Military– Because They Don't Know It's There

  by Jennifer Spindel, Matt Motta, and Robert Ralston

  The extent of white nationalism in the active military is not precisely known. But few Americans are aware at all of the connections between the military and far right groups. Publicizing the fact that military leadership--a trusted group--is concerned about the issue could make more Americans aware of the problem of domestic extremism.

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• 11/24/19
  

  The Myth of the First Thanksgiving is a Buttress of White Nationalism and Needs to Go

  by David J. Silverman

  Americans tend to view the Thanksgiving myth as harmless, but it is loaded with fraught ideological meaning.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  August 4, 2019
  

  The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism

  by Kathleen Belew

  Attacks like that in El Paso are not an end in themselves. They are a call to arms, toward something much more frightening.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/31/19
  

  Don't just revile Amy Wax--rebut her

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Outrage does not and cannot refute what she said -- only facts can do that.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/28/19
  

  Medieval History Goes to War With Itself

  While medievalists battle, white nationalists try to co-opt the past.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/16/19
  

  The accused New Zealand shooter and an all-white Europe that never existed

  Brenton Tarrant covered his arsenal with symbols and names that medieval historians say are being misused by white supremacists.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-24-18
  

  How a child born more than 400 years ago became a symbol of white nationalism

  by Andrew Lawler

  Virginia Dare and the myth of American whiteness.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  12-21-17 (accessed)
  

  Teaching Against White Nationalism: How One Historian Took Action

  by Jeremy Best

  "When we use the tools we possess as historians, many of our students listen, especially when we treat them with a respectful openness to discussion and debate. This is truly something white nationalists are unable to counter."

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• 10-22-17
  

  How This Historian Responded to the Aggressive White Nationalism of Trump Followers

  by Linda Gordon

  She decided to turn a chapter she was writing on the Second KKK into a book.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9-18-17
  

  There are women who back the KKK and Neo-Nazis, too

  by Arica L. Coleman

  Blaming 'Bad Dudes' Masks the Role of Women in the History of White Nationalism